The Shake Shack is this little hamburger and food stand in the S.E. corner of Madison Square Park in New York. It’s basically right inside the park near the corner of 23rd st and Madison. I read about it in New York magazine, it is ranked #17 out of 101 best cheap food places in the city. I finally got to try it out, since it’s national “Take your Ex to the Park” day, lol. They even serve wine!! Awesome hot dogs and burger, and the vanila shake is amazing, I ordered a large which was too much, and it was freezing out so I had to threw away half of it cuz it was just too cold to hold it. They get so busy during the day they even have a Live Web Cam so you can see how long the line is before you go down there.

So I went to dinner with Han and Joey and one of Joey’s friend last week, and Joey being the trendy restaurant guy picked out this new place in the meatpacking STK. It’s a STeaK house, get it? lol except it’s probably the trendiest steak house I’ve been, nothing like your Peter Luger old school places. I feel like I need to put on my Ed Hardy hat and start dancing on the couches with my girls lol, it’s like a lounge/club but it’s a steakhouse. And I’m sooo glad I’m at a steakhouse with the boys cuz when do I ever get the chance to order a fabulous 10 oz Fillet Mignon anymore? Surely not when all the girls I’m taking out are too concerned about eating or only want hip new Sushi or Fusion places, lol. But the best part of the whole meal is… THE MASHED POTATOES!! They call it “Creamy Yukon Potato” and it’s absolutely fabulous! I think I might just order that with a side of steak next time! haha

What can I say? When you want a cupcake, you’ve gotta have a cupcake!! And what better place other than the Magnolia Bakery in the west village. Their cupcakes are so famous, they have a sign that limits one dozen cupcakes per customer!! They’ve been on Sex And The City and a million other TV and movies. But forget all the hype, they reeeally know how to make a cupcake! I’ve been told that Magnolia makes the best moist cake part, while Buttercup on the east side has the best frosting, I might have to do a side-by-side comparison in the future. In any case, Magnolia cupcakes are HOT! Save the one with the little daisy for your special girl!

Ok, I’m somewhat of a food aficionado. I’m a decent cook myself. I try out a lot of different things, different cuisines. Hummus, for those of you that don’t know, is a Mediterranean / Middle Eastern dish, somewhat like an appetizer / chips and dip-ish kinda food. It’s made from cooked pureed chickpeas, sesame seed tahini, plus Mediterranean spices, and usually a sprinkling of pure olive oil. Now it is HARD to find GOOD hummus anywhere other than authentic Mediterranean / Middle Eastern restaurants. But we ordered this Sabra’s Roasted Red Pepper Hummus from FreshDirect online just to try it, and OMG, it is like HEAVEN!! It has a cluster of red peppers and olive oil in the middle, we had it with vegetable crackers (normally people have it with pita bread) and drank white wine. It was so good that we couldn’t stop ourselves and almost ruined our appetite for actual dinner lol. My one complain is that there’s not enough roasted red pepper inside, so liek 10 minutes later me and my friends are all pointing fingers at each other saying “You ate all the red pepper!!’ lol.

This has been out for like 3 or 4 years already, lol so it’s nothing new, but Amy just started using them when we were playing tennis in Central Park, and let me tell ya, I wish I had them!! It’s the best designed water bottle for any sports activities. There’s a special top that locks in securely, unlike the other “sports bottles” that basically just has a little snout that you pull up or down, not very secure. Plus the Evian “Action” water bottle has a little hoop on top so you can hook it to your backpack or belt or whatever when you go do your sporty things whatever that is. Now all I need is invent a hook on my iPod then my sporting accessories will be complete… lol, it only gets a “kinda” HOT because I probably would’ve liked the to be a little skinnier, but Fat Bottles need lovin’ too right?? lol

I’m actually kinda sad that this is happening. I love Spinach Salad! So just in case you have been living underneath a rock in the last week or so, they’ve found bags of spinach contaminated with toxic E.coli bacteria, so far it has killed 3 people and more than 170 people from more than 25 states (including New York) are sick from eating spinach! How crazy is that?! Who knew such nutricious health food could be such deadly silent assasins!! lol Actually when me and my roommate went to Queens two days ago and ate at a Chinese restaurant, they brought out this dish cooked with spinach even though we specifically requested it to be substituted… hmm… the plot thickens… maybe it’s a conspiracy… lol either way, SPINACH is SOOO NOT HOT right now…

this week, the only thing that made the NOT HOT LIST this week is…

Broccoli that came in a vegetable dip set (Did I just say Dip-Set?! ok bad joke). The carrots were great, the cherry tomatoes are ok, the celery were egh, but the Broccoli were just awful. I tried having them while I was sober, I tried to have them when I was trashed, nothing helps! Raw uncooked Broccoli just taste bad. So Raw Uncooked Broccoli makes my NOT HOT list this week. As a side note, did you know that The word broccoli comes from the Latin brachium and Italian brocco meaning “arm”, or “branch”. Broccoli is part of the cabbage family, often referred to as a “cruciferous” vegetable, due to the fact that these plants often have four petals which can look like crosses.

Told you I was full of useless knowledge…